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CHAPTER 662 . 

AN ACT RELATIVE TO POLITICAL COMMITTEES AND 

CAUCUSES. 


(Passed May 18, 1899.) 


It is enacted hy the General Assembly as folloyjs : 

DEFINITIONS. 

Section 1. The term “ elective office” shall apply to any office 
for which candidates are to be voted for at any national, state, 
municipal, ward, or district election. 

The term “ caucus officers ” shall apply to all officers taking part 
in the conduct of caucuses. 

The terms “ caucus ” and “ political convention ” shall apply only 
to such as shall be called and held in pursuance of this act. 

The term “ political party ” as used in this act, or in Chapter 11 
of the General Laws, shall apply only to a political party which at 
the next preceding annual election polled for governor at least two 
per cent, of the entire vote cast in the state for that office. 

. STATE COMMITTEES. 

Sec. 2. Every political party shall annually elect a state 
committee. 

Such state committee shall, within ten days after its organiza¬ 
tion, file with the secretary of state a list of its officers and mem¬ 
bers. 





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CAUCUS ACT. 


CITY AND WARD COMMITTEES IN THE CITIES OF DROVIDENCE AND 
DAWTUCKET. 

Sec. 3. The qualified electors of every i)olitical party in each 
Avard of the cities of Providence and Pawtucket shall annually 
elect a ward committee for such ward, and the members of the 
several ward committees of the same political party shall consti¬ 
tute a political committee of such political party, to be called a city 
committee. Each city committee shall, Avithin ten days after its 
organization, file Avith the secretary of state a list of its officers 
and members; and in PaAvtucket also Avith the city clerk, and in 
Providence also AAutli the board of canvassers and registration. 
The general management of the affairs of each political party in 
said cities shall be vested in said city committee, subject to the 
rules and regulations Avhich the state committee of each such 
political party shall make. 

Any vacancy occurring in the office of chairman, secretary, treas¬ 
urer, or other officer of any political committee, shall be filled by 
the action of such committee, and a statement of any change so 
occurring shall be filed as in the case of the officers first chosen. 

CAUCUSES IN PROVIDENCE AND PAAA^TUCKET. 

Sec. 4. The folloAAung sections of this act shall apply only to 
the cities of Providence and Pawtucket. 

Sec. 5. All notices for holding caucuses shall ai3ply to all mem¬ 
bers of the political party Avhose caucuses are to be held pursuant 
to said notices, and to them only; and only members of such 
political party shall participate in the caucuses of said party. 

No person having voted in the caucus of one political party 
shall be entitled to vote or take part in the caucus of any other 
political party held within ninety days thereafter, nor shall any 
person having signed nomination papers of a candidate or candi¬ 
dates for any elective office be entitled to vote or t/ike part in any 
caucus of any political party held for the nomination of candi- 


CAUCUS ACT. 


5 


dates or for the election of delegates to a convention to nominate 
candidates to be voted for at the same election, or in any caucus 
held within ninety days thereafter for the election of caucus offi¬ 
cers or the members of a political committee. 

No person who shall have voted in the caucus of any political 
party for any candidate for an elective office, or for any delegate 
to a convention to nominate candidates for any elective office, 
shall sign any nomination paper containing nominations of candi¬ 
dates to be voted for at the same election as that for which such 
caucus or convention shall have been held. 

Sec. 6. In computing the number of electors required by law 
to sign a nomination paper for any elective office, the names of 
electors appearing, by the check list hereinafter specified, to have 
voted in the caucus of any political party for the nomination of 
candidates for any elective office or for the choice of delegates to 
a convention to nominate candidates for any elective office to be 
voted for at the same election, or to have voted at any caucus of 
a political party held within ninety days for the election of caucus 
officers or members of a political committee, shall not be counted: 
Provided^ that except as in this section otherwise specified nom¬ 
inations of candidates for any elective office to be filled by the 
electors of any ward or voting district in either of said cities may 
be made by nomination papers signed in the aggregate for each 
such candidate by not less than fifty qualified electors of such 
ward or voting district. 

CAUCUSES—WHEN HELD, AND HOW CALLED AND WARNED. 

Sec. 7. No two political parties shall hold their caucuses on the 
same day. The title or name of any political party which has 
made a nomination or nominations at the next preceding election 
shall not be used in combination with any word or words on any 
official ballot or any elective office. The political party first filing 
its designation of a day for the holding of a caucus with the city 
clerk in the city of Pawtucket, or with the board of canvassers 


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}iiid registration in the city of Providence, shall be entitled to pre¬ 
cedence on the day named therein ; Provided, that no caucus or 
convention of delegates for the nomination of candidates for any 
elective office shall be held within two days of the last day for 
filing the certificate of nomination for such office, nor shall any 
political party hold hvo caucuses on successive days. 

Sec. 8. All caucuses shall be held, in said cities, at the call of 
the city committee of the political party holding such caucuses. 
The call for such caucuses shall be issued not less than five days 
prior to the day on which they are to be held, and shall state the 
place, the hour of holding the same, and the time during which the 
polls are to be open, and the business to be transacted thereat. 
Said call shall be published at least four consecutive days in one 
or more newspapers published in the city in which such caucus 
shall be held. All caucuses and conventions of every political 
party in said cities shall be held substantially in accordance with 
the provisions of this act. 

Sec. 9. At least ten days prior to the date on which a caucus 
is to be held in either of said cities, the chairman of the city com¬ 
mittee of each political party in Pawtucket shall notify in writing 
the clerk of the city of Pawtucket, and in Providence the board of 
canvassers and registration of the city of Providence, of the date 
selected for such caucus, and said city clerk and said board of 
canvassers and registration, respectively, are hereby authorized 
and required, at the expense of their respective cities, to provide 
not less than one polling place in each ward for such caucus, and 
to notify in writing such chairman as to the places so provided at 
least seven days prior to the date of such caucus. All caucuses 
shall be held in the several ward rooms of said cities whenever 
practicable. 

The hour for calling all caucuses in said cities shall be 7:00 
o’clock in the evening, and the polls shall close at 9:30 P. M. 


CAUCUS ACT. 


7 


CAUCUS OFFICEKS—WHEN AND HOW CHOSEN. 

In each ward of said cities the qualified electors of each political 
party shall annually, at the caucus held to elect delegates to the 
convention to nominate a candidate for governor, elect a caucus 
warden for such ward and a caucus clerk for each voting district 
therein, who shall be qualified electors of the ward or district, 
respectively, for which they are elected, and members of the 
political party at whose caucus they are elected. Such caucus 
wardens and caucus clerks shall have the same and like powers, 
and shall discharge the same and like duties relative to caucuses 
held under the provisions of this act, so far as the same are ap¬ 
plicable, as are conferred by law upon wardens and clerks in re¬ 
spect to state elections. 

Every such officer shall hold ofiice for the term of one year, be¬ 
ginning with the first day of May succeeding their election, and 
until his successor is elected. 

In case a vacancy for any cause, including removal from the 
ward or district, shall occur in the office of caucus warden or cau¬ 
cus clerk iDrior to the time appointed for the meeting of the cau¬ 
cus, it shall be filled by the members of the ward committee of 
such ward in which such vacancy shall occur. 

No person shall be eligible to the office of caucus warden or 
clerk who is a member of, or a candidate for, a city or ward com¬ 
mittee, and no person shall serve as a caucus ofiicer at any cau¬ 
cus wherein he is a candidate for delegate to any convention or 
for any elective office, except that of caucus officer. 

The ward committee of each political party in said cities shall, 
not less than ten days prior to the holding of the first caucuses 
which shall be held under this act, appoint such caucus officers as 
are hereinbefore provided for in every ward holding such meet¬ 
ings, to serve as such officers at the first caucuses which shall be 
held after the adoption of this act, and shall at the same time file 
a list of all such officers with the city clerk in Pawtucket and the 
board of canvassers and registration in Providence. In case of a 


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rAUOUS ACT. 


redivision of the wards or voting districts of either of said cities, 
the city committees aforesaid shall appoint the caucus officers to 
serve at the first caucuses after such redivision, and at such cau¬ 
cuses the regular caucus officers shall be elected as hereinbefore 
provided. 


CONDUCT OF CAUCUSES. 

Sec. 10. The caucus warden elected or appointed, as hereinbe¬ 
fore provided, shall call the caucus of his political party to order, 
and shall preside thereat. In case, however, that the caucus 
warden is absent and no person has been designated by the ward 
committee of the party to act as such caucus warden, the clerk of 
the first district in such ward shall call the meeting to order and 
shall preside until a caucus warden shall be appointed, and in 
case of the absence of such clerk, the chairman of the ward com¬ 
mittee, or in his absence any qualified elector of such party, shall 
call the meeting to order and preside until a caucus warden pro 
tempore be appointed. Any necessary lu’eliminary business not 
finished at 7:30 P. M. shall be postponed until after the polls are 
closed and the result of the balloting announced. 

VOTING TO BE BY BALLOT. 

Except for the filling of vacancies in the office of caucus warden 
and caucus clerk, as hereinbefore provided, a ballot shall be re¬ 
quired for the choice of all candidates for all elective offices and 
all delegates to conventions to nominate candidates for national, 
state or municipal offices, for caucus wardens and clerks, or for 
members of a political committee to be elected by such caucus, and 
the polls shall be kept open until 9:30 P. M. 

All ballots shall be printed or written on white paper, and no 
tissue paper shall be used for any caucus ballot. 

The names of all the candidates for which any elector shall vote 
at any caucus shall be written or printed upon one ballot. 


CAUCUS ACT. 


9 


CHECK LIST TO BE USED—WHEN CANVASSED. 

Sec. 11. In balloting at any caucus held between the last 
Monday in February and the first Wednesday in April in any year, 
the voting lists of the several wards and voting districts in said 
cities as canvassed upon said last Monday in February shall be 
used. 

At all other caucuses the voting lists of the several wards and 
voting districts in said cities last published according to law, with 
such subsequent changes thereon as may be certified by the board 
of canvassers in Pawtucket, or by the clerk thereof, and the board 
of canvassers and registration in Providence to a date not more 
than five days prior to the earliest day designated by any politi¬ 
cal party for the holding of any caucus for the nomination of 
candidates for any elective office, or of choosing delegates to a 
convention to nominate candidates for any elective office, shall be 
used: Provided, hoiveve^', that all caucuses for the nomination of 
candidates for the city council of either of said cities shall be held 
within twenty days of the day of the annual municipal election, 
and the board of canvassers in Pawtucket and the board of can¬ 
vassers and registration in Providence shall annually hold a can¬ 
vass meeting on the twenty-second day preceding the Tuesday 
after the first Monday in November, to canvass and correct the 
voting lists of electors qualified and who may be qualified by the 
payment of a tax to vote for members of the city council. No 
other person shall be permitted to vote in any caucus held for the 
nomination of members of the city councils of said cities, or shall 
be qualified to sign a nomination paper therefor. Notice of such 
canvass meetings shall be given in the same manner and for the 
same time as required by law in the case of a final canvass meet¬ 
ing prior to an election: And provided also, that in case of the 
calling of a caucus to nominate candidates at any special election 
to fill a vacancy in the city council in either of said cities, said 
board of canvassers in Pawtucket and the board of canvassers and 
registration in Providence shall hold a canvass meeting for the 


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CAUCUS ACT. 


purposes aforesaid at sucli time prior to such caucus, and shall 
give such notice thereof, as they shall in each case prescribe. 

An exact copy of such voting list, duly certified by the city 
clerk in Pawtucket or the board of canvassers and registration in 
Providence, respectively, shall be used at all caucuses held during 
the same series of caucuses for the same election as above pro¬ 
vided, and all the names of persons voting at each such caucus of 
the same political party shall be checked on such list in one and 
the same color by a dash at the left of the name, which color shall 
be different from any which may have been used in any previous 
caucus of any other political party of the same series and for the 
same election, and all voting for .caucus officers, candidates for 
any elective office, delegates to any convention, or members of 
any political committee shall be by the use of such check list. 

The city clerk in Pawtucket and the board of canvassers and 
registration in Providence are hereby authorized and required to 
furnish, at the expense of said cities, suitable ballot boxes, blank 
forms of certificates and returns and other election stationery for 
each polling place at which any caucus is held, and to cause the 
voting lists aforesaid to be delivered at each such polling place to 
the caucus warden, or other officer authorized to preside at said 
caucus, prior to the hour of seven o’clock in the evening of the day 
on which any such caucus is to be held ; and it is hereby made the 
duty of the chiefs of police of said cities to detail such number of 
police officers to each such polling place, for the preservation of 
order and to deliver the voting lists aforesaid, as may be requested 
by said city clerk of Pawtucket and said board of canvassers and 
registration of Providence. For all caucuses held in any ward for 
the election of caucus clerks separate ballot boxes shall be fur¬ 
nished and used in each voting district therein. 

No person shall be entitled to vote or take part in any caucus 
for the nomination of candidates for any elective office, or for the 
choosing of delegates to any political convention for the nomina¬ 
tion of candidates for any elective office, unless such person is at 
the time of holding such caucus a qualified elector for such elec- 


CAITOUS ACT. 


11 


live office, or whose name does not appear on such voting list, or 
whose name has been checked upon said voting list, or who shall 
have signed nomination papers of candidates for any elective office 
to be voted for at the same election as that for which such caucus is 
being held, or who shall liave voted at any caucus of any otlier 
political party within ninety days. 

VOTE, now CHALLENGED. 

If at any caucus held under the provisions of this act any per¬ 
son offering to vote is challenged for any cause recognized by law, 
the caucus warden shall require the name and residence by street 
and number of such person to be written by himself, or by some 
one for him, on the outside of the ballot offered by him, and the 
caucus warden shall add the name and residence by street and 
number of the person so challenging, and the cause assigned for 
the challenge, before such ballot is received; but nothing in this 
section shall be construed as permitting any caucus officer to 
receive any ballot which by law he is required to refuse. 

Sec. 12. The person or persons receiving the highest number 
of votes in a caucus shall be deemed and declared to be elected 
or nominated. 


PEOCEEDINGS IN CASE OF A TIE VOTE. 

In case of a tie vote for delegates to a convention, or in case of 
a place being unfilled in a delegation, or in case of a vacancy occa¬ 
sioned by inability or neglect of a delegate to attend a conven¬ 
tion, such vacancies shall be filled only by vote of the remaining 
members of the delegation, at a meeting duly called for the pur¬ 
pose. Such meeting shall choose a chairman and secretary, and 
the secretary shall notify the secretary of the convention of the 
action of the meeting so far as it relates to a vacancy. 

In case of a tie vote for members of a ward committee, or for 
caucus officers, the members duly elected shall fill the vacancy or 


vacancies. 


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CAUCUS ACT. 


In case a majority of a delegation to any convention, or ward 
committee, or caucus officers are not elected, or in case of a tie 
vote for candidates for an elective office, the caucus shall adjourn 
to such day as shall he designated at said caucus by a caucus 
warden, but not to any day at which a caucus of any political 
party has been called. 

VOTE, HOW AND WHEN COUNTED. 

Immediately on the closinj- of the polls the caucus warden and 
clerk shall in open caucus proceed to count the ballots cast, and 
the candidate or candidates receiving a plurality of the ballots 
shall be declared by the caucus warden to be elected. The ballots 
and voting lists shall then be forthwith separately sealed up, to¬ 
gether with a statement of the result of the balloting, substantially 
in form required by law in the case of state elections, and shall be 
forthwith delivered in person by the caucus clerk of the first vot¬ 
ing district in each ward to the city clerk in the city of Pawtucket, 
and to the board of canvassers and registration in the city of 
Providence. 

Sec. 13. The warden of every caucus shall, within twenty-four 
hours after said caucus is held, deliver, send, or cause to be sent 
to each delegate to a political convention and to each member of a 
political committee a certificate of his election, and to each candi¬ 
date for an elective office a notice of his nomination, and shall also 
cause the certificate of nomination required by law in the case of 
all candidates who are nominated by such caucus for any elective 
office to be prepared and seasonably filed in the proper public 
office. Upon the check lists used at such caucus the clerk check¬ 
ing such list shall make a return under oath that the said check 
list is the identical one used in the caucus of the political party 
for which it was furnished, and that the names checked in the 
color employed at such caucus were truly and properly checked 
at such caucus, and that no alteration or erasure or additional 
check has been made thereon, and said city clerk in Pawtucket 
and board of canvassers and registration in Providence shall 


CAUCUS ACT. 


13 


make a true copy of said check list in the same color or colors ap¬ 
pearing* thereon, and shall deliver such copy, duly certified by him 
or them in like manner as hereinbefore specified, to the caucus 
warden of the political party whose caucus next occurs, and shall 
proceed in like manner until all the same series of caucuses for 
the same election have been held, when he and they shall re¬ 
spectively seal up and preserve the same, together with the copy 
or copies thereof hereinbefore provided, for the space of thirty 
days after the last meeting of said series. If before the expiration 
of said time they shall be requested in writing by ten voters en¬ 
titled to vote in any of said series of caucuses, they shall safely 
keep said ballots and check lists for the period of three months 
thereafter, and said city clerk of Pawtucket shall produce the same 
if called for by the board of canvassers of said city. 

The city clerk in Pawtucket, or the board of canvassers and 
registration in Providence, after a check list has been used at a 
caucus of a political party held under the provisions of this act, 
upon written application for a copy of the list as checked, signed 
by any qualified elector in said city, and upon payment or tender 
of the fees provided by law therefor, may unseal and open the 
wrapper containing such check list, and shall furnish to such ap¬ 
plicant a certified copy of the list as checked and shall then reseal 
the same. 


RECOUNT OF VOTES. 

If before five o’clock in the afternoon of the day succeeding 
the day on which any caucus is held under the provisions of this 
act a person who has received votes thereat for nomination or 
election to any elective office, delegation, or political committee, 
shall serve upon the city clerk of Pawtucket, or the board of can¬ 
vassers and registration in Providence, a statement in writing that 
the records and returns made by the caucus officers, as aforesaid, 
are erroneous, and specifying wherein the same are erroneous, 
and claiming an election or nomination by said caucus for the 
petitioner, and petitioning for a recount of such ballots by the 


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CAUCUS ACT. 


board of canvassers in Pawtucket, or tlie board of canvassers and 
registration in Providence, such city clerk and board of canvass¬ 
ers and registration, respectively, shall retain all the ballots cast 
at such caucus for such nomination or elective office until such 
claim is withdrawn or the contest for the nomination or election 
is fully determined by the board of canvassers in Pawtucket, or 
by the board of canvassers and registration in Providence. 

The city clerk of Pawtucket shall forthwith notify the members 
of the board of canvassers of said city of the filing of such peti¬ 
tion, and it shall be the duty of said board of canvassers in Paw¬ 
tucket to forthwith convene in their chamber at the city hall and 
to cause notice in writing to be served upon all other candidates 
for the same office receiving votes at said caucus, at the expense 
of the petitioner, of the filing of such petition for a recount, and 
shall appoint a time and place for the recount of said ballots 
within twenty-four hours from the time of ordering such notice. 
At the time specified by said board of canvassers said city clerk 
shall transmit to such board all the ballots cast at such caucus 
and the voting list used thereat. In the city of Providence like 
proceedings shall be observed by the board of canvassers and 
registration, at the expense of the petitioner, and at the appointed 
time and place said board of canvassers of Pawtucket and board 
of canvassers and registration in Providence, respectively, shall 
proceed to recount said ballots and to hear and determine all 
questions raised for or against the counting of the same or of any 
thereof, and such recount shall stand as the true record and result 
of the vote cast at such caucus, and the proper officer shall cause 
the names of the persons so declared to be nominated for any 
elective office to be printed upon the official ballots in accordance 
with the certificate of such recount by said board of canvassers in 
Pawtucket, or the board of canvassers and registration in Provi¬ 
dence, respectively, which shall be deemed to be made and filed as 
of the day of holding such caucus. 


Any candidate receiving votes at such caucus for such nomina- 


CAUCUS ACT. 


15 


tion or office may be present during such recount, either in person 
or by an agent duly appointed in writing. 

Sec. 14. Caucuses relative to a special election shall be held at 
such time and place, and subject to such reasonable notice, as the 
political committee whose duty it is to provide for holding the 
same may determine. All calls for the same shall be issued by 
the chairman and secretary of the city committee of said cities, 
and when called they shall be held in the same manner and sub¬ 
ject to the same rules as govern caucuses called for elections 
whose date is fixed by law. 


PENALTIES. 

Sec. 15. Every public officer, or officer of a political party, who 
shall wilfully violate any of the provisions of this act, or shall 
refuse, or wilfully neglect and omit to perform in the manner and 
within the time prescril)ed any duty imposed upon him by this act, 
shall be fined not less than fifteen nor more than fifty dollars, or 
imprisoned in jail for a period not exceeding thirty days, or both. 

Every person at a caucus who, knowing that he is not entitled 
to vote, votes or attempts to vote; or votes or attempts to vote 
upon any other name than his own; or votes or attemptes to vote 
more than once upon his own name; or deposits or attempts to 
deposit more than one ballot for any candidate for any elective 
office or delegate to any convention or caucus officer or member 
of any political committee on the same balloting; or at any cau¬ 
cus gives a false answer to any caucus clerk or the presiding officer 
of any caucus relative to his right to vote at such caucus, shall be 
punished by imprisonment in jail not exceeding thirty days. 

Whoever aids or abets a person not entitled to vote at a caucus 
in voting or attempting to vote under a name other than the 
voter’s own name, or in voting twice upon the voters own name, 
or aids or abets a person in depositing or attempting to deposit at 
a caucus more than one ballot as aforesaid on the same balloting, 
shall be punished by imprisonment in jail not exceeding thirty 
days. 


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CAUCUS ACT. 


Whoever wilfully alters or wilfully makes any change, erasure, or 
additional check in the names checked upon the check list used or 
to be used at a caucus, or, having custody or control of such check 
list, shall suffer or permit any alteration, change, erasure, or addi¬ 
tional check to be made in the names checked upon such check 
list, shall be punished by imprisonment in jail not exceeding sixty 
days. 

Except as otherwise herein provided, the penalties imposed by 
law upon election and other officers and voters who violate the 
provisions of acts regulating state elections are hereby imposed 
upon the same and like caucus and other officers and voters for 
the same and like violations of this act. 

ENFORCEMENT. 

Sec. 16. It shall be the duty of every police or other peace 
officer or constable to arrest without warrant any person detected 
in the act of violating the provisions of this act. 

Sec. 17. All state, city, and ward committees which are in ex¬ 
istence at the date of the passage of this act shall be subject to 
the provisions of this act, and shall hold office until the first day 
of May, A. D. 1900, and until their successors shall have organized 
Provided^ that such state, city and ward committees as shall have 
been elected but not organized at the time of the passage of this 
act shall hold office from the date of their organization until said 
first day of May, A. D. 1900, and until their successors shall have 
organized. 

Sec. 18. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are 
hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect upon its passage. 


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